Kirkus Reviews, starred review Cheerful, energetic. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Just right for the preschool group or beginning reader. The message is warm and reassuring, particularly to adoptees, stepkids, and other children who for various reasons don't resemble their caretakers. Keiko Kasza's twist on the Are you my mother? theme has become one of the most highly recommended stories about adoption for children. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children-a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator-and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together. Bear if she's his mother-but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. Book Synopsis Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.
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